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Giving Dalits their due

Social Welfare V.V. Krishnan Dalits and Adivasis protest for, among other things, full allocation of funds for the SCSP and the TSP, in New Delhi in 2012. Two draft Bills on the Tribal Sub-Plan and the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan raise hopes… Continue Reading →

#India – Kaladera farmers battle beverage giant, Coco Cola #Coke

MAHIM PRATAP SINGH KALADERA (GOVINDGARH), January 23, 2014 A traditional open farm well now unusable because of the falling water table in Kaldera, Rajasthan. Photo: Mahim Pratap Singh Bansi Ahir and fellow farmers of Kaldera. Photo: Mahim Pratap Singh The Coca… Continue Reading →

With arrest of businessmen, Maoists’ urban network exposed in Chhattisgarh

  SUVOJIT BAGCHI   The HinduMaoist spokesperson of Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee G V Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi who has surrendered along with another member of Press unit Santhoshi Markam before AP Police on Jan. 9, 2014. File photo: Mohammed… Continue Reading →

Are AAP’s Donations Hit by Anarchy Too?

Onli ne contributions have plunged since Jan 17 SRUTHIJITH KK & RITIKA CHOPRA NEW DELHI , ET The raucous street politics of Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti and Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna that turned the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi into a… Continue Reading →

Afzal Guru Would Have Lived, Had SC Ruled a Year Earlier #Deathpenalty

Execution violated almost every guideline set by the Supreme Court panel now AMAN SHARMA NEW DELHI , ET Mohammad Afzal Guru, hanged for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack, could well have had his death sentence commuted if Monday’s… Continue Reading →

West Bengal woman gang-raped as punishment on orders of ‘kangaroo court’ #vAW

All India | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Updated: January 23, 201 Click to Expand & Play Kolkata:  A 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by at least a dozen men in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on the orders of a medieval-style village “court” that… Continue Reading →

What if Robert De Niro was questioned by the Goa police?

  by Deepanjana Pal Jan 22, 2014               It has been widely reported that Goa police’s Crime Branch has been trying to get hold of actor Robert De Niro, to question him about the… Continue Reading →

CBI highlights anomalies in Lokpal Bill

  The HinduCBI Director Ranjit Singh during a conference in New Delhi. File photo: R.V. Moorthy Pointing out some “anomalies and legal inconsistencies” in the Lokpal Act, the CBI has raised a question as to whether the entire probe agency… Continue Reading →

Women’s safety requires undoing of patriarchal myths AAP shares with other parties

Jan 23, 2014, 12.10 AM IST No country’s path to growth and development can bypass the goalposts of women’s empowerment and Women’s safety is a prerequisite to both, besides being a fundamental human right. Most political parties have accepted this… Continue Reading →

#India – Tribal girl gang-raped by 12 men following khap diktat in WB #Vaw #WTfnews

HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times  Kolkata, January 22, 2014 First Published: 23:19 IST(22/1/2014) | Last Updated: 07:51 IST(23/1/2014)  A 20-year-old tribal woman was allegedly gang-raped in a West Bengal village on the orders of a salishi sabha, the state’s equivalent of khap… Continue Reading →

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